My husband was, for many years, a private pilot. Although I could never get comfortable flying in such small compartments, I did travel with him many times and every time he went through a page of equipment checks before take off. Occasionally on business travel I have peeked into the open door of the cockpit to find commercial pilots using…
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September 2013 News Round Up (podcast)
This monthly news round-up includes comments from Pat Voermans, advanced practice nurse recently retired from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, and Mari Knight, Mid-Atlantic Transition, Training and HSA Support Nurse for Conmed Healthcare Management. Story #1: Indiana Inmates Provide End-of-Life Care Our first story comes from the Indiana Prison System where they are providing hospice care in the Wabash Valley…
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Struggling Against Instant Disbelief
I’m at the Custody and Caring Conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada this week networking with correctional nurses from various Canadian settings along with correctional nurse leaders from the UK, US, Australia, Sweden, and Germany. Keynote speaker, Dawn Freshwater, shared her developing model of caring in nursing in the offender populations called Custodial Caratis. I was challenged to re-examine my own…
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